Railway-switch



(No Model.)

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RAILWAY SWITCH. v No. 448,112. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

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ORLANDO BIXLER, OF \VELLSTON, OI-IIO.

RAILWAYW-SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,112, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed August 21, 1890. Serial No. 362,693. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORLANDO BIXLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Veilston, in the county of Jackson and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Switches; and I do declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to an improvement in railway-switches, and the novelty will be fully understood from the following description .and claim, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of a portion of a main track and siding, showing my improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the sill, showing a portion of the rails with the switching device and the switch-rail partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the switch-rail and the switching-disk and supporting-sill.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates the main-track rails, and B indicates the siding, which may be of the ordinary or any approved construction.

0 indicates a switch-section arranged at one end of the siding and main-track rails, respectively. The switch-section O has attached to itthe usual switch-rod a, connected at one end with one end of a bell-crank lever I), which latter is connected by a link 0, with the usual weighted hand-lever (l, pivoted in a segmental switch-frame c.

D indicates a frog-rail. This switch-rail is supported at a suitable point in its length upon a semi-rotative disk E, and is secured thereto by plates F, which are of an angular form and overlap the base-flange of the rail and secured to its neck by bolts f. These angular plates F are secured at their opposite ends, by means of bolts g, to the semirotative disk E, as shown.

G indicates the sill, which maybe of wood or other suitable material, and ofa sufficient length and width. This sill, which is arranged beneath the switch-rail D, is provided with a circular aperture 71, as shown, and is covered on its under side with a plate H, which forms a support for the disk E.

I indicate plates, which are of a curvilinear form, and secured to the sill at opposite sides of the switch-rail, so as to cover the openings formed between the disk E and the inner walls of the opening in the sill, and thereby exclude snow, rain, dust, and the like.

It is desirable to have openings suitably arrangedin the bottom plate H or in the sides of the sill leading from the circular aperture therein for the outlet of any water that may lodge around the semi-rotative disk.

This frog-rail D is interposed between the adjacent ends of the track-rails of the main section, and also the adjacent ends of the rails of the siding, as shown, and said rails are respectivelyprovided on theirouter sides with plates 1', which are designed to serve as stops for the opposite ends of the switch-rail and limit the lateral movement thereof.

K indicates a transverse rod, which is secured at one end to one end of the switch-rail D, and its opposite end is secured to one of the branches of abell-crank leverL, the opposite branch of said lever being connected by a longitudinal rod M with one of the branches of the bell-crank lever b, said levers being pivoted at their angles in one of the ties of the main track section and exterior to the rails thereof.

In operation it will be seen that as the switch-section O has been shifted through the medium of the Weighted lever and switchrod to open the siding the switch rail D, arranged upon the semi rotative disk, will, through the medium of the connecting-rod and bell crank levers, be simultaneously moved to open the siding at the opposite end of the switch-rail.

In some cases the bell-crank levers might be dispensed with and a crank formed on each end of the rod M. In such cases the rod Cb would run through to the switch-lever and an additional rod or link employed to connect the rod a with the crank on the adjacent end of the rod M, so that the movements of one would be communicated to the other.

Having described my invention, what I claim is In a railway-switch, the combination, with the main track and siding, of the switch 0, the switch-rod connected therewith, the bellcrank lever 12, the switch-stand e, hand-lever transverse rod connecting one branch therepivoted therewith, the link connecting said of with one end of'thefrog -iever, and theionbell-crank lever with the hand-lever, the froggitudinai rod connecting the bell-crank 1eraii D, the sill G, having the circular apervers, substantially as described. 5 ture, the semi-rotative disk arranged in said In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 15 aperture and receiving the f rog-rail, the anpresence of two Witnesses. gular plates secured to the frog-rail at one ORLANDO BIXLER. end and secured to said disk at their opposite ends, the protecting-p1ates arranged IO around the disk, the bell-crank lever L, the

Witnesses:

JOHN W. HIGGINS, J. A. LOCKARD. 

